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May 23, 2009 21:33
14 yrs ago
Spanish term

pronunciada sensibilidad salarial

Spanish to English Social Sciences Government / Politics Spain
Gran parte del empleo generado es de bajos requisitos formativos, inestabilidad contractual y pronunciada sensibilidad salarial.

A large number of the newly created jobs are low skilled, contractually unstable, and markedly sensitive to wages??
Proposed translations (English)
5 +6 higly sensitive to wage levels
4 pronounced sensitivity to salary levels
3 subject to volatile wages
3 pay levels are very unstable

Discussion

Patricia Rosas (asker) May 27, 2009:
still scratching my head ... Hi, Muriel and Polyglot: I agree with Polyglot (low skilled, no security, and low wages) so I'm not sure what the authors meant by being "sensitive to wages". Can you all give me a few days, and I'll see if I can get them to weigh in on this? Thanks!
polyglot45 May 24, 2009:
I'm worried about the underlying meaning For me they're saying: many of the new jobs require little or no qualifications, there is no job security (probably short-term fixed contracts) and, to add insult to injury, there is no guarantee as regards the rates paid
Muriel Vasconcellos May 24, 2009:
Does restructuring it change the meaning a little? As I understand the original, the wage levels are highly volatile. I'm not sure that being 'highly sensitive to wage levels' is saying quite the same thing. Maybe I'm nitpicking...

Proposed translations

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higly sensitive to wage levels

I wouldn't suggest using markedly in this context... "highly sensitive" is a more common pairing.
Note from asker:
Thank you, again!!
Peer comment(s):
agree Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes
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agree Alicia Orfalian
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agree Eileen Banks
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agree Richard Boulter : Or 'severely sensitive'. The wages are so low as to be sensitive to any economic change, for example. Or to create sensitivity among the principals.
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agree James A. Walsh
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agree Richard McDorman
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you, Marian. I didn't understand what your answer meant, and in case others were in the same boat with me, I asked the author. He explained that if wage costs rise, the lower paid jobs would disappear and the immigrants would be out of work."
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pronounced sensitivity to salary levels

The other elements describing the kinds of jobs being generated are all noun phrases (substantive plus its modifiers). Beause of that, parallelism would argue for the use of the noun form "sensitive", plus the other appropriate modifiers.

I also think the use of "de" in the original also indicates that the elements describing the jobs should be noun phrases.
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subject to volatile wages

Another perspective for you to think about ('volatile' being strong enough to incorporate the meaning of "pronunciada"). Examples:

Immigration Policy and the Welfare System: A Report for the ... - Google Books Result
by Tito Boeri, Gordon Howard Hanson, Barry ... - 2002 - Business & Economics - 326 pages
This does not appear to be the case in Mexico, where **low and volatile wages are a strong push factor for illegal migration**. ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0199256314... -

Women continue to face lower and **more volatile wages**, experience greater job losses, and face a heightened risk of home foreclosure. ...
kennedy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Taking%20a%20Toll--%20report%20on%20effects%20of%20recession%20on%20w.

had 14% lower wages than capitalist enterprises, on average; **more volatile wages**; and less volatile employment. Given the quality of the data set analyzed, ...
www.stanford.edu/~pista/coopssept04.pdf

They admit that Toyota workers' wages are close to UAW rates, but say the difference is in **how volatile wages can be at a non-union plant**. ...
www.autoblog.com/tag/TerryThurman/

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or 'subject/sensitive to wage volatility' - yields more and better examples:

Estimating Wage Volatility for College versus High School Careers. Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics ...
ideas.repec.org/p/wop/snyaec/03-01.htm

We present theory and evidence on the effects of wage volatility on labor mo- .... support for our theory and highlight the role of wage volatility in ...
www.columbia.edu/~lm25/Switching-08-2005.pdf -
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pay levels are very unstable

agree with Polyglot that the bit before is about job (in)security, and with Muriel's comment
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